Most likely to cause offence are the '
brown-nosers' who suck up to the boss, just one of 11 categories identified by the poll.
more ocean-going royal toadying from BBC
brown-noser Andrew Marr.
Nice guy, but a
brown-noser. Whinges about how uncool it is to be on BB.
He broke a stunned silence, turning to the
brown-noser, raising his glass and saying: "And you are an effing creep."
Brown-noser Luke has been busy making sure he's everyone's best friend.
'Vote Labour, vote Brown', boasts
Brown-noser Nick.
Brown-noser Grogan hedged his bets at Prime Minister's Question Time by praising both the PM and the Chancellor.
He's the
brown-noser who delivered Quality Street chocolates to a tyrant in possession of a genocide programme Hitler himself would have envied.
After all, as one
brown-noser pointed out, "Wills was a country lad.
Why a paper with a working-class readership employs an upper- class
brown-noser like you is beyond me.
Meanwhile, three bonus points to Alan Hansen for exposing Jimmy Hill as the
brown-noser we all suspected he was.
As he took strongest exception to the mistaken belief that Mirrorman Reade had branded him a Mandelson-style "
brown-noser", his mum was gradually calming down.
Aquarian bosses prefer employees who aren't moody, and finally Scorpio bosses can spot a
brown-noser a mile away.
Energetic employees can expect others to accuse them of being "
brown-nosers." You hand self-starters a self-help book, they often see themselves being written about, with many complaining, "Damn, I could have written that."